Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Correspondence to: Dr E S Wallen Department of Internal Medicine, MSC10 5550, 1-University of New Mexico, ...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department ...

OBJECTIVES: An update of a study of workers exposed to 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT) at a rubber chemicals plant in Nitro, West Virginia is reported. The earlier study found high rates of lung cancer, ...

Estimated exposure to endotoxin and circulating immunological markers among male farmers in the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture study ...

Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA Professor John M Dement, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of ...

Correspondence to Dr Ewan Carr, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK; ewan.carr{at}kcl.ac.uk Objectives To characterise the baseline King’s ...

Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Correspondence to Antonis Analitis, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical ...

OBJECTIVES: Assessment of level of exposure to platinum and platinum concentration in urine from platinum industry workers to evaluate internal exposures and excretion kinetics. METHODS: Platinum ...

1 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA 2 Toxicology and Molecular Biology Branch, Health ...

Aim: To assess the incidence and risk factors for neck and shoulder pain in nurses. Methods: A longitudinal study of neck and shoulder pain was carried out in female nurses at two hospitals in England ...

2 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to: Prof. J C McDonald National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Department of Occupational and ...

A 32 year old male research physician accidentally received a minor wound from a needle which had been previously used on rabbit tissue. Within 15 minutes serious anaphylactic reactions started and he ...